{"id":1557,"date":"2013-10-07T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2013-10-07T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:38:59","slug":"weapon-displayed-though-victims-never-saw-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"<a href=http:\/\/www.hoorfarlaw.com>Weapon Displayed, Though Victims Never Saw It<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peremptory strike&#8217;s purpose is to give effect to &#8220;a subjective evaluation of the honesty and accuracy of the statement of the venireperson&#8217; and appellant did not show that any of the grounds are pretextual for <i>Batson<\/i> purposes. Display of a deadly weapon does not require victim&#8217;s sight of it. Victim&#8217;s perception of object like gun barrel pressed to head, neck or cheek constitutes a threatening manner. No one can be punished more than once for the same offense, but multiple offenses may exist in one course of conduct. &#8220;If the defendant has an opportunity to reconsider his actions, each assault separated by time is considered a separate offense.&#8221; Evidence of impact on victims was relevant to element of forcible compulsion and, though emotionally compelling, admitting it was not error.<\/p>\n<p><i>State of Missouri vs. Bernard Jackson<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the Missouri Bar.<br \/>\nVisit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Hoorfarlaw.com\">www.Hoorfarlaw.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peremptory strike&#8217;s purpose is to give effect to &#8220;a subjective evaluation of the honesty and accuracy of the statement of the venireperson&#8217; and appellant did not show that any of the grounds are pretextual for Batson purposes. Display of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,348,277,276,363],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hoorfar-law","tag-law-office-of-camron-hoorfar","tag-missouri-bar","tag-mo-bar","tag-weapon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}